Association of Children's
Museums (ACM) is an international not-for-profit professional
service organization representing and advocating for the children's
museum field. ACM's mission is to build the capacity of children's
museums to serve as town squares for children and families where
play inspires creativity and lifelong learning. Currently, ACM
serves more than 500 museums, businesses and individuals.
Questions?
ContactJeannette
Thomas
Program Officer, Membership
Phone: 703.224.3100 x101
Fax: 703.224.3099
ACM is committed to helping all museums meet the needs of children and family visitors. Members can access the latest trends and best practices to meet their institutions’ programmatic and museum management needs. ACM welcomes all types of museums as institutional members. ACM's dues for children's museums are based on the museum's operating income for the most recently completed fiscal year.
Category
Annual Income, if applicable
Cost of Membership
Open Children’s Museum
Level 1: annual income under $250K
$330
Open Children’s Museum
Level 2: annual income under $500K
$660
Open Children’s Museum
Level 3: annual income under $1 million
$880
Open Children’s Museum
Level 4: annual income under $3 million
$1,210
Open Children’s Museum
Level 5: annual income under $5 million
$1,430
Open Children’s Museum
Level 6: annual income more than $5 million
$1,760
Sponsor Children’s
Museum
$2,200
International Children’s Museum
$600
Emerging Children’s Museum
$330
Affiliate Museum*
$880
*This category includes art, history, science and other
museums dedicated to serving children and families.
ACM corporate members represent a diverse range of organizations serving the field and supporting the growth of children’s museums in their communities. They gain exposure to a unique and focused audience through ACM membership while acknowledging the value of children’s museums worldwide.
ACM offers professional development opportunities,
education and serves as a source of the latest news for
individual members. ACM has a large base of individual members
from various professions who have a shared desire to assist
the work of children’s museums and serve the needs
of children and families.
Category
Cost of Membership
Museum Professional at an ACM Member Museum*
$45
Student
$60
Museum Professional
$175
Individual
$275
Self-Employed Consultant
$500
*This category is only open to museum professionals affiliated with an ACM museum member.
ACM corporate members represent a diverse range of organizations serving the field and supporting the growth of children’s museums in their communities. They gain exposure to a unique and focused audience through ACM membership while acknowledging the value of children’s museums worldwide.
Category
Cost of Membership
Academic / Research Institution*
$330
*This category is only open to colleges, universities and
independently-run
research facilities.
ACM Nonprofit Affiliate members represent the diverse range of organizations that support children and families, education and ACM leadership initiatives.
ACM represents and advocates on behalf of the children's museum field. ACM individual memberships are for people who work in -- or want to start -- a children’s museum. ACM does not offer a family membership.
You may be looking for a membership that provides ACM Reciprocal Program benefits. If so, you will need to purchase a family membership at one of the children’s museums involved in the ACM Reciprocal Program. Is there a children’s museum near your home or that you visit frequently? Check to see if that museum participates in the ACM Reciprocal Program. Visit or call your local children’s museum to learn more about purchasing a family membership with ACM Reciprocal Program benefits.
